West India Customs and Manners: Containing Strictures on the Soil, Cultivation, Produce, Trade, Officers, and Inhabitants: with the Method of Establishing, and Conducting a Sugar Plantation. To which is Added, the Practice of Training New Slaves. By J. B. Moreton, Esq. A New Edition |
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الصفحة 24
Should you enter into business in the country , when you see an impending shower , haften to your home , or to some hut , or place of shelter , till it is over ; and at working hours , when thus obliged to fhun the weather , do not keep ...
Should you enter into business in the country , when you see an impending shower , haften to your home , or to some hut , or place of shelter , till it is over ; and at working hours , when thus obliged to fhun the weather , do not keep ...
الصفحة 35
... get his bones broke ; the streets are fandy , and when it blows strong the dust rarifies so abundantly , that a person passing cannot see the houses nor parsengers , nor can he , but with much difficulty , preserve his eye - light .
... get his bones broke ; the streets are fandy , and when it blows strong the dust rarifies so abundantly , that a person passing cannot see the houses nor parsengers , nor can he , but with much difficulty , preserve his eye - light .
الصفحة 43
Suppose a hill of a conical form , the liners begin at the top and line it in a circular manner till they get to the base : a planter who has any spirit of emulation , enjoys a pleasure in seeing cane holes properly lined and dug .
Suppose a hill of a conical form , the liners begin at the top and line it in a circular manner till they get to the base : a planter who has any spirit of emulation , enjoys a pleasure in seeing cane holes properly lined and dug .
الصفحة 51
Though I see many a fine house built , I might just as well attempt , with a few negroe masons or carpenters , to build an elegant structure , ornamented and decorated in a mechanical manner ; or , though I learned the theory of ...
Though I see many a fine house built , I might just as well attempt , with a few negroe masons or carpenters , to build an elegant structure , ornamented and decorated in a mechanical manner ; or , though I learned the theory of ...
الصفحة 52
If skimmings remain ten or twelve hours unset , they will curn ropy and spoil , after which , if they are set , they will prevent the other sweets from yielding a due proportion of ruin , and will see the distill - house foul ...
If skimmings remain ten or twelve hours unset , they will curn ropy and spoil , after which , if they are set , they will prevent the other sweets from yielding a due proportion of ruin , and will see the distill - house foul ...
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| العنوان | West India Customs and Manners: Containing Strictures on the Soil, Cultivation, Produce, Trade, Officers, and Inhabitants: with the Method of Establishing, and Conducting a Sugar Plantation. To which is Added, the Practice of Training New Slaves. By J. B. Moreton, Esq. A New Edition Eighteenth century West India Customs and Manners: Containing Strictures on the Soil, Cultivation, Produce, Trade, Officers, and Inhabitants: with the Method of Establishing, and Conducting a Sugar Plantation. To which is Added, the Practice of Training New Slaves. By J. B. Moreton, Esq. A New Edition, J. B. Moreton |
| المؤلف | J. B. Moreton |
| الناشر | J. Parsons; W. Richardson; H. Gardner; and J. Walter, 1793 |
| أصلي من | جامعة أوكسفورد |
| الكتب ذات التنسيق الرقمي | 8 أيار (مايو) 2009 |
| عدد الصفحات | 192 من الصفحات |
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